Chapter 16

Appointed by the President in 1877 Register of U. S. Lands--Robert J. Ingersoll on the Benignity of Homestead Law--General Grant's Tour Around the World and His Arrival at Little Rock, 1879--A Guest at the Banquet Given Him--Response to the Toast, "The Possibilities of American Citizenship"--Roscoe Conkling's Speech Nominating General Grant for Third Term--Bronze Medal as one of the Historic "306" at the National Convention of 1880--The Manner of General Grant's Defeat for Nomination and Garfield's Success--Character Sketches of Hon. James G. Blaine, Ingersoll's Mailed Warrior and Plumed Knight--Hon Grover Cleveland.